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...When the militants entered the compound, said Lt. Gen. Shafqat Ahmed, the commanding military officer at the scene, two were killed within moments. The other three climbed atop a roof and began shooting at the police commandos and hurling grenades. "There was a very brave police commando who began firing back straight away," said a police commando, declining to be named. The sniping commando struck one of the attackers down. The last attacker blew himself up. The attackers appeared to be prepared for the long haul, carrying dried fruit with them, and intent on taking hostages...
...natural hypotheses are the Gen Ed requirements and recent macroeconomic conditions, as well as mere random variation,” he wrote in an e-mail when asked about the reasons for the downturn. “But I am not at all sure how to sort out which of these hypotheses is correct...
Meanwhile, a new Gen Ed course co-taught by McCarty—Science of the Physical Universe 20: “What is Life? From Quarks to Consciousness”—was almost three times as large as expected, he said...
...tempered verses that lead into a soaring refrain that perfectly enunciates a vision of triumph.Perhaps the frenzied vocals and indelible melodies of “Black” and “Jeremy” will continue for decades to move 14-year-olds and aging Gen-Xers to a place that no other band can reach. But for listeners who don’t fit either of these descriptions, “Backspacer” may well be the first Pearl Jam album they can genuinely enjoy. —Staff writer Keshava D. Guha can be reached...
Math has never really been FlyBy's best subject, so there are limited options when it comes to fulfilling the dreaded QR requirement--or, excuse us--the Empirical and Mathematical Reasoning category under the "new" Gen. Ed. curriculum. On the one hand, there are classes like "Bits" and "The Magic of Numbers" that seem geared to the fluffier humanities types, and on the other, there are the departmental courses, which, yes, provide solid, mathematical instruction but are basically just harder versions of the math you couldn't even handle in high school...